People get in their own way. So says a group of researchers, who also highlight [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121450609076407973.html?mod=hps_us_inside_today] the value of not overthinking a decision. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its ‘mind’ 10 seconds before we even…
Wealth intrigues me [https://www.nilkanth.com/index.php?s=wealth]. And, it amuses me, because at times I wonder if there’s anything close to “adequate wealth”, or maybe, “good enough to last long” wealth. We are chasing wealth, but it comes with no guarantee of happiness. So I’…
The thought behind this post has been vaguely floating in my mind for the past few weeks. A quick preface first. Medicine has advanced enormously. Genome mapping, human cloning, or even plastic surgery would have been considered far fetched by the common man a century ago, but in the past…
For a long time I’ve been fascinated [https://www.nilkanth.com/index.php?s=tibet] by a land called Tibet. Now, there’s a state of unrest [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/world/asia/16tibet.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin] is the most peaceful…
Would it be fair to say that more wealth makes us less spiritual. The “Wealth and Religiosity” graph [http://www.theatlantic.com/images/issues/200803/secular-graph.gif] seems to depict so. With the spread of freethought, scientific skepticism, and criticism of religion; secular theology has gathered a more specific meaning.…
Mark Twain once said “it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end.” He sure had something more to convey than what the casual eye might gather. I often wonder why do we all fancy success? I don’…
Brad [http://hardcorezen.blogspot.com/], who practices Zen Buddhism and writes about it as well, has a very interesting experience [http://homepage.mac.com/doubtboy/boring.html] to share: > People long for big thrills. Peak experiences. Some people come to Zen expecting that Enlightenment will be the Ultimate Peak…
Over the years, it has been debated in the meta-popular culture that we might be living in a simulation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality#We_are_living_in_a_simulation]. I wrote [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2007/07/05/are-you-tuned-to-the-godcast/] about this “Matrixical” notion earlier. And again,…